Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -26 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 180 408 353
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.79% 9.93% 10.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.75% 29.74% 25.92%
Number of salaries quoted 98 198 213
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,920 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £46,563 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,188 £79,688 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,125 £102,250 £90,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,050
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.07% -8.25%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 567 1,372 1,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.10% 33.41% 41.68%
Number of salaries quoted 403 799 955
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.15% -5.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,750 £88,250
South East median annual salary £57,125 £59,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.38% +7.50% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -41 83 £47,520 -32.11% 61
Oxfordshire -7 50 £65,000 +13.04% 77
Buckinghamshire -6 47 £60,000 +4.35% 33
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.11%) CMS
2 2 (1.11%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) Appian
3 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.89%) MadCap Flare
3 2 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 57 (31.67%) AWS
2 54 (30.00%) Azure
3 46 (25.56%) Power Platform
4 31 (17.22%) GCP
5 23 (12.78%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (12.22%) Serverless
7 19 (10.56%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (8.33%) GitHub
10 10 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (5.00%) Azure AI
12 7 (3.89%) dbt
12 7 (3.89%) Google Analytics
12 7 (3.89%) Google Docs
13 6 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (3.33%) SaaS
13 6 (3.33%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.78%) Amazon S3
14 5 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.44%) DNS
1 8 (4.44%) Firewall
2 4 (2.22%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.22%) Wireless
3 3 (1.67%) Broadband
3 3 (1.67%) HTTP
3 3 (1.67%) Internet
4 2 (1.11%) 5G
4 2 (1.11%) DHCP
4 2 (1.11%) FTP
4 2 (1.11%) SMTP
4 2 (1.11%) SSH
5 1 (0.56%) 4G
5 1 (0.56%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.56%) Modbus
5 1 (0.56%) MQTT
5 1 (0.56%) Network Security
5 1 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.56%) SpaceWire
5 1 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (23.89%) Power BI
2 27 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 24 (13.33%) BigQuery
4 23 (12.78%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (11.67%) Tableau
6 18 (10.00%) RDBMS
7 15 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (5.56%) Metadata
9 7 (3.89%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.78%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.67%) Data Hub
11 3 (1.67%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.67%) Looker
11 3 (1.67%) MySQL
11 3 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.11%) Airbyte
12 2 (1.11%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (17.22%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.67%) Git
3 18 (10.00%) JMeter
3 18 (10.00%) JUnit
3 18 (10.00%) Mockito
4 9 (5.00%) JIRA
5 6 (3.33%) GitLab
5 6 (3.33%) Selenium
6 4 (2.22%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.22%) MLflow
6 4 (2.22%) Postman
6 4 (2.22%) SoapUI
6 4 (2.22%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.67%) Burp Suite
7 3 (1.67%) Metasploit
8 2 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.11%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.56%) Appium
9 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 60 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (15.56%) Law
3 27 (15.00%) Marketing
4 22 (12.22%) Public Sector
5 21 (11.67%) Finance
6 15 (8.33%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.44%) Retail
8 7 (3.89%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.22%) Legal
10 3 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.67%) Retail Finance
11 2 (1.11%) Banking
11 2 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.11%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.11%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.56%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 30 (16.67%) Developer
2 29 (16.11%) Analyst
3 24 (13.33%) Architect
3 24 (13.33%) Senior
4 20 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
4 20 (11.11%) GCP Architect
4 20 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 20 (11.11%) Platform Architect
5 17 (9.44%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (9.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 15 (8.33%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 14 (7.78%) Data Analyst
7 14 (7.78%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.56%) Junior
9 9 (5.00%) Junior Analyst
9 9 (5.00%) Junior Data Analyst
10 8 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 8 (4.44%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.44%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.67%) REST
2 21 (11.67%) HTML
3 20 (11.11%) JSON
3 20 (11.11%) Spring
3 20 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 19 (10.56%) Web Services
4 19 (10.56%) XML
5 18 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
5 18 (10.00%) Apache Camel
5 18 (10.00%) Hibernate
5 18 (10.00%) jQuery
5 18 (10.00%) WireMock
6 11 (6.11%) SOAP
7 10 (5.56%) .NET
8 6 (3.33%) Middleware
9 5 (2.78%) Lightning Web Components
9 5 (2.78%) PyTorch
9 5 (2.78%) React
9 5 (2.78%) Visualforce
10 4 (2.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.56%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.89%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.33%) Life Science
5 5 (2.78%) SCADA
5 5 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.22%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (2.22%) IoT
6 4 (2.22%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 3 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.67%) Animation
7 3 (1.67%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.67%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.67%) Replication
8 2 (1.11%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.11%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.56%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.56%) PCIe
9 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.11%) Linux
2 11 (6.11%) Windows
3 10 (5.56%) Unix
4 3 (1.67%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.11%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.11%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.67%) Agile
2 56 (31.11%) Analytics
3 47 (26.11%) CI/CD
4 46 (25.56%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (18.89%) Roadmaps
7 31 (17.22%) Mentoring
8 30 (16.67%) Data Science
9 29 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (15.56%) Cloud Security
10 28 (15.56%) Strategic Roadmap
11 27 (15.00%) AI
12 26 (14.44%) DevOps
12 26 (14.44%) SDLC
13 25 (13.89%) ETL
14 24 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
15 23 (12.78%) Computer Science
15 23 (12.78%) Cost Management
15 23 (12.78%) Machine Learning
15 23 (12.78%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 70 (38.89%) SQL
2 56 (31.11%) Java
3 39 (21.67%) JavaScript
4 26 (14.44%) Go
5 21 (11.67%) Shell Script
6 16 (8.89%) Bash
7 14 (7.78%) C++
8 13 (7.22%) C#
8 13 (7.22%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (2.78%) Apex Code
11 5 (2.78%) C
11 5 (2.78%) PHP
12 4 (2.22%) Fortran
12 4 (2.22%) Perl
12 4 (2.22%) R
12 4 (2.22%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.22%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 39 (21.67%) Degree
2 27 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 13 (7.22%) Master's Degree
5 9 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.00%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.33%) PhD
7 4 (2.22%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.67%) OSCP
9 2 (1.11%) ACCA
9 2 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.11%) CIMA
9 2 (1.11%) MCSE
9 2 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (1.11%) RHCE
10 1 (0.56%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.56%) GPEN
10 1 (0.56%) LPIC
10 1 (0.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.44%) QA
3 5 (2.78%) GDPR
4 3 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.67%) ECSS
4 3 (1.67%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.56%) GxP
5 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
System Software
1 35 (19.44%) Docker
2 4 (2.22%) vCloud
3 3 (1.67%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.11%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.56%) GPFS
5 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.56%) Lustre
5 1 (0.56%) NFS
5 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (30.56%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.56%) Kibana
3 11 (6.11%) Ansible
3 11 (6.11%) Terraform
4 4 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (2.22%) Kubeflow
4 4 (2.22%) Rundeck
5 3 (1.67%) Argo
5 3 (1.67%) Grafana
5 3 (1.67%) Nmap
5 3 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) Control-M
6 1 (0.56%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.56%) SCCM
6 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (17.22%) Google
2 19 (10.56%) Dynatrace
3 18 (10.00%) Splunk
4 14 (7.78%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.89%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.33%) Databricks
6 6 (3.33%) VMware
7 5 (2.78%) Allen-Bradley
7 5 (2.78%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.78%) Siemens
8 3 (1.67%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.67%) SAP
8 3 (1.67%) Talend
9 2 (1.11%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.11%) Cognos
9 2 (1.11%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.11%) IBM
9 2 (1.11%) Informatica
9 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.11%) Zoho